Improvement in revolving cotton-lint rooms



w. T. GBENSHAW. Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.

N0. 138,865. Patented Mag 13,1873.

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STATES WILLIAM T. CRENSHAW, OF BURTON, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING COTTON-LINT ROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,865, dated May 13,1873; application filed April 5,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM T. CRENSHAW, of Burton, in the county ofWashington and State of Texas, have invented a new and ImprovedLint-Receiver, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a lint-receiver of two or more compartments orrooms arranged so as to revolve on a vertical axis, each compartmentbeing provided with inlet-passages for lint and doors for taking out thesame, so arranged that while the inlet-passage of one room is at thegin-stand, where the lint will be delivered into it as it comes from thegin, the door of another room will be at the press, whereby the ginningand pressing may be carried on continuously without the hands beingexposed to the dust, as they must be when taking out the lint forpacking from the same room into which it is delivered from the gin,which they must do to carry 011 the work continuously when only one roomis used, and which is so inconvenient in practice that the ginning hasto be stopped when the room is full till the lint is taken out andpacked, and the packing has also to cease while the ginning is going on.

Figure 1 is a horizontal section of my improved lint-receiver, and Fig.2 is a transverse vertical section.

A is a large circular receiver, mounted on a vertical shaft, B, havingsuitable bearings and supports at top and bottom to allow it to turnfreely. G is a partition, dividing it vertically and centrally into tworooms, D E, each of which has an inlet-passage, F, f0r.admitting thelint as it comes from the gin-stand H, and a door, G, for removing thelint to the press K. The said inlet-passages and doors are arranged inlike relation to each room, and relatively to the gin-stand andthepress,so that when the inlet-passage of one room is in suitable relation tothe gin-stand to admit the lint to the room as it falls from the gin thedoor of the other room will be in the right position relatively to thepress to be most convenient for conveying the lint to it to be pressed,so that the pressing can be carried on simultaneously with the ginningwithout inconvenience from the dust and fine particles of lint; also,that when one room is filled and another emptied the receiver can bequickly shifted to bring an empty room to the gin and a filled one tothe press.

I do not limit myself to two rooms, for three compartments, havinginlet-passages F and discharging-doors G, arranged relatively to the ginstand and press, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM T. ORENSHAW.

Witnesses S. D. OURRTHERS, W. R. TIM.

